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Hi, Im just starting to investigate CiviCRM for our association - we run our site on Joomla and have been using components for events registration & payment, forums, social,photos,  blog, membership fees , email newsletters etc . I understand that civiCRM integrates with joomla and links to joomla user tables, but it's not clear from anything I can find whether signing into joomla will sign you into CiviCRM also - I saw some post mentioning that users have to manually set the same passwords, is that true?

We want to retain a single username/password ,keeping lots of joomla functionality but migrate memberships, event registration and email newsletters to CiviCRM. Is this possible?

Also, I'd like to integrate with google apps - so using the same users/sign on for all three would be ideal. Does anyone know if this is  possible with CiviCRM/Joomla/google apps ?

Many thanks,
Aidan

Many thanks Donald, that clears up a big misconception for me. If it piggybacks on Joomla user registration/login that suits me fine. Sounds good !
I'll check the Google apps separately, it's really a joomla question.